Michael Kamil, Ph.D., is Professor of Education at Stanford University. Michael Kamil, Ph.D., is Professor of Education at Stanford University. He is Chair of the Reading Framework Planning Committee for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) He is also a member of the National Literacy Panel for Language Minority Youth and serves on the Adolescent Literacy Advisory Board for The Alliance for Excellent Education. He is a member of the Carnegie Corporation Advisory Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy. He was a member of the National Reading Panel and the RAND Reading Study Group. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Boards for the National Evaluation of Educational Technology and the National Accessible Reading Assessments Projects. His research explores the effects of computer technologies on literacy and learning and the acquisition of literacy in first and second languages. Current research projects are funded by the California Commission for Post-Secondary Education, The Center for School Choice at Vanderbilt, and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory.
